Welcome back, Spiky. Once you get caught up on your sleep you'll have some real good reading to do.

I am sleeping in my chair and Jon has been shaking it so I will go to bed and snore there, I am going to miss him when he leaves with his wide load and new trailer on his way to the San Francisco area tomorrow. I get the reward for working an extra day last week this weekend, I get an actual three day weekend! Maybe Christmas will get to my house yet.

My nephew was supposed to start his jail term today but it was delayed, he has had trouble remembering he should behave himself now that he is a father. So he'll be sleeping in jail and his girlfriend will be taking him to his work and bringing him back to jail for however long he's going to have to serve. He's been spending the last few weeks doing things for my folks. His house is about three blocks up the street from the jail. That is a big reason my parents want to spend a month away from home this winter.

I hope he gets a clearer picture of how the world actually works during his confinement and I hope his girlfriend proves she is worth the wait. She had a big hand in what happened and if she is still in the picture after this she'll have proven herself and if she doesn't stick around she'll have proven something else.

The family is finally figuring out when we might get together to celebrate Christmas, it might be the day after Christmas and then we don't know if we will get to have our little guy with us, and we know we won't get to have his dad. Or his uncle from North Pole,AK. Pretty soon all the kids will be off doing their things and we will wait with bated breath until we can see them again. I totally missed seeing Michael this last time he was home on leave, damn cellulitis. I would have loved to see him with his first nephew.